Cooking & Baking with Love
Fada Lapsi, a perfect festive sweet dish prepared by mostly Gujarati’s during festive season, for housewarming or for any religious occasion. It’s made from cracked wheat. Ghee, sugar or Jaggery, and like every other Indian dish flavored with cardamom.
It’s Diwali week and I am sharing yet another Diwali special sweet. This time, its Kaju Katli. Kaju Katli is a an Indian mithai or sweet, that taste like candy. The thin diamond shaped katli adorned with edible silver can impress anyone. It’s simplest of …
Peda is the popular and very traditional mithai recipe from India. It’s usually made from Khoya but in States, I prefer it with milk powder. It’s made from very few ingredients like milk powder, milk, sugar, and cardamom powder. In the festive mood, I decided to try a tricolor peda recipe with rose, chocolate and plain flavors. The idea came from Neapolitan cookies.
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These easy paan thumbprint cookies are so delicious and so fun to make for Indian festivals like Diwali. I cannot stop eating them. A perfect eggless sugar cookie base made using paan/betelnut leaves and filled with rose petal jam or Gulkand. It is a must …
Creamy Subji made with cashews in onion-tomato sauce. Cashews roasted in ghee or butter are cooked with a sauce of onion, tomatoes, garlic and some spices to flavor. Perfect with parathas or naan.
Palak Patta Chaat is an utterly stunning and delicious appetizer.
It is a gluten free street food dish. Palak (Spinach) Patta (Leaf) is one of the most delicious chaat that you won’t stop eating once you dig into it. It gets super addictive bite after bite that you cannot resist. India is known for its chaats. There papdi chaat, alu chaat, fruit chaat, dahi puri, bhel etc. My mouth is watering right now even while writing this post. Chaat has all these fun tasting components to it. It’s slightly spicy from green chutney, tamarind chutney gives that sweetness, and sev or boondi gives crispy factor and chaat masala gives that ‘umami’ flavor.
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You all know about Palak Paneer, Palak Feta or even Chana Palak. Just like that we also make a spinach subji with same palak or spinach base with lots of vegetables. It’s so delicious and healthy too. If you love spinach, then this dish is …
These delicious Black Chana Masala is a great flavorful side dish, and it goes well with rotis or steamed rice. It is made with black chana sautéed in spicy tomato sauce.
This flavorful version of chickpea tikkis or burger patties uses chickpeas as a base and is infused with lots of other vegetables and spices. These tikkis are so flavorful enjoyed with inside a pita pocket with pickled onions and salad, herbs and some delicious sauces of your choice.
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In Gujarati, the word ‘SUKH’ means happiness and I guess that’s where the name came from. Some families call this sweet dish ‘Gor Papdi’ We call Jaggery, Gor or Gud and usually it is shaped thinly therefore the word Papdi. Jaggery is healthier sweetener than sugar. …